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get the questioning wrong and if they dug further, they’d find something quite different." Dr Greg Pike. pic.twitter.com/LVks7phdcJ
When you run a poll in the way that proponents of assisted suicide do, you find 73% ‘support’ changing the law. But when you dig a little deeper and ask other questions, 'support' drastically detoriates.... Only 11% of the public are immune to any anti-assisted dying arguments. pic.twitter.com/liboYXG8iU
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🚨 6-in-10 people agree it is inevitable that some of the most vulnerable people in society, such as the elderly, people with disabilities or mental health conditions, would feel pressured into choosing #AssistedDying
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🚨 56% of people agree the current state of the NHS is likely to push some people into #AssistedDying #assistedsuicide if it were made legal.
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🚨57% of UK adults agree that, given the lower cost of assisted dying compared to palliative care, there would likely be pressure on the NHS to offer assisted dying were it to become legal.
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🚨Over half of voters agree that #AssistedDying inevitably discriminates against the poor who cannot afford comfortable end-of-life living.
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🚨 59% of voters agree it is impossible to create effective safeguards that will always prevent people from being coerced into assisted dying.
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🚨 Only six in 10 people could correctly define #AssistedDying as “providing people who have less than six months to live months to live with lethal drugs to end their life.”
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The debate has clearly not been conducted long enough, or thoroughly enough… pic.twitter.com/YDASacxeZ4
🚨54% of voters are not confident that the government will be able to pay for their end-of-life care in the future.
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🚨66% of the public agree that Labour should prioritise sorting out palliative, social and end-of-life care first before even thinking about #AssistedDying
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66% of the public agree that Labour should prioritise sorting out palliative, social and end-of-life care first before even thinking about Assisted Dying.
🚨70% of voters think that, before Parliament considers introducing #AssistedDying, there should be a Royal Commission to examine the future of palliative and end-of-life-care. #AssistedDyingBill
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Care Not Killing was set up in 2006 as an alliance of individuals and organisations which brings together disability and human rights groups, healthcare providers, and faith-based bodies, with the aims of promoting more and better palliative care; ensuring that existing laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide are not weakened or repealed; and helping the public to understand the consequences of any further weakening of the law.
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